Kazi is ready to be your new favourite non-binary, pansexual, South Asian, Muslim comedian. | cbcarts
is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.will simultaneously achieve both of the ultimate goals for a comedian: their TV specialalbum will both be released the same day. This also almost certainly makes them the first non-binary, pansexual, South Asian, Muslim comedian to achieve either feat in Canada, let alone both at the same time.
"Now all of my comedy is de facto Muslim, queer and South Asian, because that is who I am. Everything that leads me to where I'm going is because of where I'm from — my parents being Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants, me spending my late teen years at queer clubs drinking shots with drag queens..." "For those who don't know what that is, it's one of the biggest multicultural annual events in Toronto," Kazi says. "I was sitting in the Bangladesh section and my parents pushed me onto the stage to do literally anything. So I told a really convoluted joke about how I was fishing and some stranger walked by and asked if I was fishing and I responded with, 'No, I'm teaching my pet worm how to swim.
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